Love organic food? Then you're a jerk ... at least according to research.
Pschologist Kendall Eskine of Loyola University in New Orleans showed that people exposed to organic food are more judgmental and volunteer less than those exposed to comfort food:
When it came to helping out a needy stranger, the organic people also proved to be more selfish, volunteering only 13 minutes as compared to 19 minutes (for controls) and 24 minutes (for comfort food folks).
"There's something about being exposed to organic food that made them feel better about themselves," says Eskine. "And that made them kind of jerks a little bit, I guess."
Why does eating better make us act worse? Eskine says it probably has to do with what he calls "moral licensing."
"People may feel like they've done their good deed," he says. "That they have permission, or license, to act unethically later on. It's like when you go to the gym and run a few miles and you feel good about yourself, so you eat a candy bar."
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In other words, judgmental people may be more likely to eat organic food.
I wonder if people who eat out of their backyard garden which just happens to be organic but not particularly expensive were included in this study.
They did not sort the participants into "I eat organic food", "I eat normal food," and "I eat comfort food" categories.
Instead, they showed photos of organic food, normal food, and comfort foods to 3 randomized groups. Those that view (and only view, not eat) organic food photos are found to be more judgmental.
http://www.nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html
Poeme electronique by Edgard Varese is reported to have been organized similarly (it was performed inside the Philips Pavilion, designed by Le Corbusier, who is well known to have made use of the GM/GS in his architecture).
It works well for musicians as it is not in the "normal" 1/2 or 1/3 proportion that most metrical music is written in.
What does it mean? That she's not good at funk music?
it's all BS.
its a wing of the pythagorean 'harmony of the spheres' school of musicology and its numerous descendants (which 99% of the world's music has nothing to do with - can somebody supply some golden section/non golden section statistics for the worlds music please?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac